LONG PROFILE: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after state TV confirms death

Record ID: 2359813

  • Title: LONG PROFILE: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, after state TV confirms death
  • Date: 20th May 2024
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Farsi) IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER, AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, SAYING (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER SHOTS OF KHAMENEI SPEAKING FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES): "I say clearly that these riots and insecurities were designed by America and the usurping and fake Zionist regime." Khamenei said on October 3 that countries seeking to normalise relations with Israel were "betting on a los
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  • Keywords: Ali Khamenei Ayatollah Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini Donald Trump Iran Iran-Iraq war Khamenei PROTESTS Saddam Hussein US president USA nuclear deal
  • Location: VARIOUS
  • City: VARIOUS
  • Country: Iran
  • Topics: Middle East,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA00P803401011970RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday (February 28), state media confirmed, after the United States and Israel launched the most ambitious attack on Iranian targets in decades.
    Iranian state media announced Khamenei's death early on Sunday (March 1). A senior Israeli official told Reuters earlier that the Iranian leader's body had been found after a strike and U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States worked closely with Israel to target the man who led Iran since 1989.
    (Production: Paul Warren, Parniyan Zemaryalai, Ben Dangerfield, Mussab Al-Khairalla, Vanessa Romeo, Bahareh Khodabandeh, Bernat Parera, Carla O'Connor)
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